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SACE Tourism Practice Exams with Worked Solutions
20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question
The 20 practice exams inside the SACE Tourism Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.
- Part A Q1 (data): constructed survey comparing two international markets to a regional destination, with percentage calculations
- Part A: sectors collaborating on a food-and-wine package
- Part A: Plog's model applied to remote-island travellers
- Part A: working holiday makers and harvest-season labour
- Part B: wildlife-encounter tourism on a fictional reef (impacts; validity and bias of a news report and a blog; three recommendations for government, businesses and tourists)
- Original practice destinations: Coorabin Coast, Bellwood Valley, Dorran Island, Elderslie and Ashcombe Reef (all fictional)
- Part A Q1 (data): occupancy and visitor-spend table for a fictional city festival week
- Part A: multiplier effect and leakage of a motorsport event
- Part A: Doxey's Irridex in a fictional surf town facing campervan visitors
- Part A: pull factors of a desert national park
- Part B: overtourism in a fictional alpine village (costs and benefits; Butler Sequence usefulness and limitations; three justified recommendations)
- Original practice destinations: Corvale, Dunmore, Banksia Heads, Amberley Ranges National Park and Edelhorn (all fictional)
- Part A Q1 (data): Gen Z travel survey with percentage-point comparisons
- Part A: market segmentation for a regional farm-stay campaign
- Part A: cultural commodification at a fictional island festival
- Part A: role of local government in managing a beach precinct
- Part B: greenwashing by a fictional eco-lodge chain (influence on tourists; evaluate a press release and a review site for validity and bias; three recommendations)
- Original practice contexts: Cobalt Bay Tourism, Calloway Downs, Eluan Island, Brightwater Beach and Ecoterra Lodges (all fictional); Part B uses the practice 8/10/12 split
- Part A Q1 (data): seasonal visitor-arrivals graph described as a table, with peak/off-peak calculations
- Part A: definitions of tourist applied to a weekly community fun-run
- Part A: employment effects of cancelled cruise visits on a fictional Pacific port
- Part A: expedition (niche) versus cruise (mass) tourism
- Part B: Indigenous-owned cultural tourism venture (impacts on community; evaluate an operator brochure and a community interview transcript; three recommendations)
- Original practice contexts: Bremer Lakes, Ashgrove, Elutu Harbour, Delisle Coast and Deep River Cultural Journeys (all fictional; no real community represented)
- Part A Q1 (data): exchange-rate and travel-budget table for an outbound student trip
- Part A: push factors of regenerative travellers
- Part A: interest-rate rise and a fictional safari economy
- Part A: evaluate a proposed nature-based tourism tax
- Part B: polar expedition cruising (carrying capacity; Butler Sequence usefulness and limitations; responsible tourism strategies for tourists and operators)
- Original practice contexts: Caldera Isles, Driftwood Bay, Dumani, Arrowsmith Peninsula and the Eldridge Archipelago (all fictional)
- Part A Q1 (data): visitor-origin table for a regional wine festival with share-of-total calculations
- Part A: sectors collaborating on festival glamping
- Part A: Butler rejuvenation through new accommodation
- Part A: evaluate the claim that a festival is sustainable
- Part B: dark tourism at a fictional disaster memorial (impacts on the host community; evaluate a memorial website and a social-media post; three recommendations)
- Part B Q7: stakeholder recommendations for a memorial trust, council and visitors
- Practice allocation: Part A 12/14/12/12; Part B 8/10/12
- Part A Q1 (data): constructed comparison of day-trippers and overnight visitors to a heritage town (average spend, length of stay)
- Part A: role of a regional tourism organisation
- Part A: staged authenticity at heritage re-enactments
- Part A: mid-centric travellers and package holidays
- Part B: cruise-ship arrivals in a fictional historic port (positive and negative impacts; evaluate a council report and a resident's letter; three recommendations for council, cruise lines and passengers)
- Part B Q6: evaluating a commissioned economic report against a resident's letter
- Practice allocation: Part A 11/13/13/13; Part B 10/8/12
- Part A Q1 (data): sports-event ticketing data with interstate share and hotel occupancy
- Part A: describe economic benefits without using the multiplier model
- Part A: government strategies behind a sporting round
- Part A: responsible behaviour of travelling sports fans
- Part B: mountain-bike trail network in a forest (sustainability analysis; evaluate a trail-builder's promotional video transcript and a conservation group submission; three recommendations)
- Part B Q5: Triple Bottom Line analysis including Traditional Owner consultation and cultural sites
- Practice allocation: Part A 13/12/12/13; Part B 10/8/12
- Part A Q1 (data): volunteer-tourism survey (age, gender, income segments)
- Part A: post-pandemic travel trends and reconnection with nature
- Part A: positive sociocultural impacts of volunteer tourism
- Part A: limitations of Plog's model for a traveller who changes style
- Part B: orphanage and 'voluntourism' ethics in a fictional country (costs and benefits; evaluate an NGO report and a travel agency advertisement; three recommendations)
- Part B Q6: evaluating an NGO research report against a travel agency advertisement
- Practice allocation: Part A 12/13/13/12; Part B 8/10/12
- Part A Q1 (data): bed-night and occupancy calculations for a fictional island in shoulder season
- Part A: technology (apps, booking platforms) changing how tourists plan
- Part A: short-term rentals and host-community irritation (Doxey)
- Part A: local council regulation of short-term rentals
- Part B: housing pressure from short-term rentals in a fictional coastal town (impacts; evaluate a platform's media release and a renters' advocacy group report; three recommendations)
- Part A Q4: evaluating a council night cap and calculating levy revenue
- Practice allocation: Part A 12/12/12/14; Part B 10/8/12
- Part A Q1 (data): visitor numbers to a national park over ten years with percentage change
- Part A: Butler Sequence decline evidence from infrastructure disrepair
- Part A: environmental and sociocultural strategies to revive visitation
- Part A: economic consequences of park closures
- Part B: glacier and ice-cave tourism under climate change (impacts; Butler Sequence usefulness and limitations; three recommendations)
- Part A Q1 (data): two-market comparison of accommodation preferences (rented houses versus hotels)
- Part A: impacts of declining regional visitation on accommodation and hospitality
- Part A: differences between advertising campaigns for two markets
- Part A: push and pull factors of family-group travellers
- Part B: marine-park sanctuary zones and recreational fishing tourism (impacts; evaluate a fishing-club newsletter and a government fact sheet; three recommendations)
- Part A Q1 (data): carbon emissions per trip by transport mode (constructed table) with calculations
- Part A: technology and transport changing travel time and distance
- Part A: slow travel as a niche product
- Part A: evaluate carbon-offset schemes offered by an airline
- Part B: greenwashing claims in rail and air travel marketing (influence on tourists; evaluate an advertisement and an independent audit summary; three recommendations)
- Part A Q1 (data): Indigenous cultural tour bookings by visitor origin (constructed)
- Part A: Indigenous concepts of country in tour interpretation
- Part A: role of government and land councils in Indigenous tourism
- Part A: market segmentation for international cultural visitors
- Part B: rock-art site visitation management (impacts; evaluate a tour operator's website and a ranger interview; three recommendations for traditional owners, operators and visitors)
- Part A Q1 (data): conference (MICE) delegate spend and length of stay table
- Part A: business tourism and the convention centre
- Part A: sectors collaborating for a conference package
- Part A: seasonality and MICE scheduling
- Part B: building a new convention and entertainment precinct in a regional city (costs and benefits; evaluate a developer's prospectus and a residents' association submission; three recommendations)
- Part A Q1 (data): constructed visitor-satisfaction survey for a wine region with percentages
- Part A: wine tourism as special interest tourism
- Part A: demonstration effect and changing local culture
- Part A: accreditation and standards for operators
- Part B: bushfire recovery and tourism in a fictional hills region (impacts; evaluate a tourism commission campaign and a local business owner's interview transcript; three recommendations)
- Fictional wine region Saltbush Ridge (survey data) and fictional hills region Wattlebrook Hills (Part B)
- Part A Q1 (data): international arrivals to a fictional mountain kingdom with high-value low-volume tariff calculations
- Part A: a daily sustainable-development fee as government policy
- Part A: allocentric trekkers and remote destinations
- Part A: leakage from foreign-owned resorts
- Part B: trekking-route crowding and waste on a fictional peak (impacts; carrying capacity and Butler usefulness; three recommendations)
- Fictional contexts: Tashgang (fee data), Tundrel Coast (allocentric trekkers), Zanthe Atoll (leakage), Mount Saskor in Sorvalla (Part B)
- Part A Q1 (data): theme-park attendance and wait-time data with averages
- Part A: mass tourism and psychocentric visitors
- Part A: technology (virtual queues, AR) in attractions
- Part A: employment and skills in large attractions
- Part B: a proposed resort and theme park beside a wetland (impacts; evaluate an environmental impact statement summary and a promotional brochure; three recommendations)
- Fictional contexts: Wonderwild Park (data), Sunvale Coast (mass tourism), Ulverton Castle (technology), Yallan Bay Marine Park (employment), Thornbill Lagoon (Part B)
- Part B uses the labelled practice allocation 8/10/12
- Part A Q1 (data): backpacker hostel survey (nationality, length of stay, spend) with calculations
- Part A: definitions of tourist for long-stay working travellers
- Part A: hosts' attitudes to backpackers in a farming town
- Part A: strategies to attract travellers to work in regional areas
- Part B: festival 'party tourism' in a fictional island town (impacts on host community; evaluate a festival organiser's statement and a resident survey; three recommendations)
- Fictional contexts: Tolley Creek and the Wirrawarra district (Part A), Neon Tide festival in Port Vaughan, Sallis Island (Part B)
- Part A Q1 (data): visitor numbers and per-visitor spend at a fictional historic gaol before and after a night-tour launch
- Part A: dark tourism motivations
- Part A: interpretation and authenticity at heritage sites
- Part A: government heritage protection and funding
- Part B: lighthouse and coastal-walk tourism in a small community (sustainability analysis; evaluate a tourism board video transcript and a walker's blog; three recommendations)
- Fictional contexts: Stonebridge Gaol (data), Vulcan Reef Memorial at Sulphur Creek (dark tourism), Sutton's Landing (authenticity), Valmont and Yarrowby (heritage funding), Cape Varley and Whalers Rest (Part B; used in place of the research scenario name Cape Ellery)
Included in the SACE Tourism Mastery Pack
20 full-length practice exams with worked solutions, 20 revision notes, 64 practice questions and 200 flashcards.
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